Russia attacks Ukraine with 242 drones and ballistic and cruise missiles overnight, strikes recorded at 19 locations

Russian forces attacked Ukraine with 278 aerial weapons on the night of 8-9 January – 36 missiles and 242 drones of various types.

Source: Air Force of Ukraine

Quote: "Early reports indicate that as of 09:00, air defence units shot down or jammed 244 aerial targets:

• 226 enemy UAVs of the Shahed and Gerbera types (as well as drones of other types)
• 8 Iskander-M/S-400 ballistic missiles
• 10 Kalibr cruise missiles.

Strikes by 18 missiles and 16 attack UAVs were recorded at 19 locations."

Details: The Air Force reported that starting at 18:30 on 8 January the Russians carried out a combined strike on critical infrastructure facilities using attack drones as well as sea- and land-launched missiles.

The main axis of the attack was Kyiv Oblast.

Air surveillance troops detected and tracked:

• 242 UAVs of the Shahed, Gerbera and other types that were launched from Kursk, Oryol, Millerovo and Primorsko-Akhtarsk (Russia), Chauda and Hvardiiske (temporarily occupied Crimea), and Donetsk (around 150 of them were Shahed attack drones)
• 13 Iskander-M/S-400 ballistic missiles that were launched from Russia's Bryansk Oblast
• 22 Kalibr cruise missiles that were launched from the Black Sea
• 1 medium-range ballistic missile that was launched from the Kapustin Yar test site in Russia's Astrakhan Oblast.

Background:

• Explosions were heard in Kyiv on the late evening of 8 January as Russia attacked the capital with drones. In the Desnianskyi district, a UAV struck the roof of a residential building. At least four people are known to have been killed.
• On the evening of 8 January, explosions were heard in Lviv after an air-raid warning was issued. It later emerged that a critical infrastructure facility in Lviv Oblast had been hit.
• Colonel Yurii Ihnat, Head of the Communications Department of Ukraine's Air Force Command, said in a comment to Ukrainska Pravda that Russia may have launched a strike on Lviv Oblast from the Kapustin Yar testing range in Russia's Astrakhan Oblast, where, according to early reports, the Oreshnik missile system is based.
• Lviv Mayor Andrii Sadovyi said it is currently unknown whether Russia used an Oreshnik missile in the attack on Lviv Oblast.

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